Peter Everett’s recent work explores forms that have an immediate visual power, physicality, and sense of urgency growing from a place just out of sight. The patterns and forms are often derived from visual phenomena experienced in transitional periods–between sleep and consciousness or while in a meditative state. Marks and time build and accumulate in the work, which favors a physicality and directness of engagement. The work is additive in nature and embraces complexity leaning toward a hyper-stimulated visual experience.
Peter Everett was born in Utah and grew up moving around the country with his formative years spent in Cleveland, Ohio. Peter received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute and exhibits his work nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions at the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, LSU Museum of Art, Michigan State University, Pratt Institute, HPGRP Gallery in New York City, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California, Barbican Arts Group Trust in London, The Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Hunter College in NYC and the Spectrum Project Space in Perth, Australia. He has had solo exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, CUAC in Salt Lake City, UT, Granary Art Center in Ephraim, UT, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and Material in Salt Lake City.
Peter has received fellowships and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts, Jentel, and The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. His work and exhibitions have been written on in ArtFix Daily, Hyperallergic, ArtNet News, Architectural Digest, and New American Paintings among others. Peter’s work is included in the collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the State of Utah Alice Horn Collection, the Springville Museum of Art, the Salt Lake City County Public Collection, and Brigham Young University where he is a professor of art.
Transmutation, Artist Feature, State of the Art Summit, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
